After the end of the liberation war in June 1962, the first objective was to establish a logistics organization to meet the needs of the army - a structure to feed, clothe, care for and train.

These directorates, which came quickly join those of the staff of the Air Force, Navy and Education, at the Ministry, would form the backbone of the National People's Army.

The bases of the general structure of the army were consolidated with the creation of the main directions, the establishment of an effective organization, the opening of schools and instruction centers and sending abroad trainees for different weapons and services.

Efforts to develop and modernize the ANP continued throughout the 1970s and 80s, at the organizational level with the formation of battalions and brigades.

The Algerian military provided young men, from disadvantaged backgrounds, the opportunity to move up in society.

This opportunity played a strong role in southeast Algeria, the Aures and Nemencha mountains, where the Shawiyya Berbers lived.

[7] Algeria is divided into seven numbered military regions, each with headquarters located in a principal city or town.

This system of territorial organization, adopted shortly after independence, grew out of the wartime wilaya structure and the postwar necessity of subduing antigovernment insurgencies that were based in the various regions.

[13] In 2016-17 Laurent Touchard said the land forces were 147,000 strong, with the Republican Guard (brigade, of nine regiments, two ceremonial); the 9th Commando Group; the 25th Special Forces Regiment; the 17th Parachute Division; two armoured divisions (1st, 8th); an armoured brigade, two mechanised infantry divisions, three mechanised and two motorised brigades, some 20ish independent infantry battalions, two artillery, seven anti-aircraft, and four engineer battalions (Touchard 2017, 17-18).

The inventory of the Algerian Land Forces mainly includes equipment from the Soviet Union and its successor, Russia, and to a lower degree from China.